Mexican Snow

I was suppost to be in Mexico right now, but didn't work out exaclty as planned...Our flight was cancelled, and they were not doing any rebooking until the 30th!!! So, I played in the snow instead! :)

All Done!

I finished my finals today. It's a strange feeling to constantly work so hard and then all the sudden be free! I am thrilled to be done, but am not quite ready to relax yet. I'm leaving for Mexico in but 4 days and have much to do in that short amount of time. But, some Sunday morning, I will be on a plane headed to warm relaxation! :)

Road

I'm driving to school at 6 in the morning, its dark and the memories of skidding my way to church yesterday are fresh in my mind. The roads scare me with their black ice coverings and snow remains swirling atop them. I drive carefully, praying to God no one gets in an accident, including me! I make it onto the freeway safely, where the frightening parts of the road are no longer quite as pertinent, the black ice is no where to be seen or felt and the swirling snow is dissipated, yet I still am unnerved. A big truck pulls in front of me as I'm driving nervously down the road. He seems sure of himself, he would never crash, he's strong and stable. So I think to myself, let's follow him, he looks safe. Forgetting that I had just asked God to keep me safe but a minute ago, I look to the big truck ahead of me for safety! I stay behind the truck, feeling secure, following him. And then he gets off. I whimper aloud, "my truck left me", and immediately I see what I was doing. I was putting my trust in someone/something other than God.

This might seem extremely silly, but it made me think of all the times that I do this in my everyday life. I look to other people to keep me safe, to guide me. The thing is, eventually they'll all leave. They look, and they might be strong, stable, safe and secure, but they're no God. God is always with me and will never get off the freeway of my life. Not to say that we can't follow people, God puts people in our lives to guide us, but ultimately, God is who we are to follow.

So, this is one of the many lessons God is teaching me right now: Look to Him.

Just as God guided the Israelites through thick and thin, through battle and desert, He will guide us and keep us safe. He is a good God who will not let His people down.

Nehemiah 9:17-19

"But You are a God of forgiveness,
Gracious and compassionate,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness;
And You did not forsake them.
Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, 'This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,'
And committed great blasphemies,
You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst."

More Evan

If any of you are interest, my brother's blog has tons more picture and stories of this darling girl. http://www.3nestors.blogspot.com/

Evan Roriann Nestor

She's so amazing...

3 Days--Come on girl!!!

Well, only 3 days til my new little niece is due (although, only God knows when she'll actually arrive). Thoroughly looking forward to meeting her!! I'll do a new post when she comes out of the womb!

There's not too many pics on my brother's blog, but there's more info on baby/mommy...

www.thenestors.blogspot.com

Work

I thought working at Edmonds CC would be only a summer job, but they have offered to keep me on as a perminate part time employee. So, great news! I don't have to search for a job come September!!! :) I really do love it here at EdCC, and look forward to another year here with all my work buddies!

My New Weekly Obsession

http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com

I'm just trying to think of the perfect 'secret' to send in...

Life at the Klondike

I think I've mentioned that I'm interning at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle/Pioneer Square. I'm actually here now, a great thing, when there's no one here I can just read or go on the internet! There is a large stack of books they want me to read to get educated on the Klondike Gold Rush. But that's totally ok, I love it in fact! Not all are as interesting as some, but it's history and I have from 9-5 every Saturday that I'm here to read, so it's pretty great. I just read a book called "Gold Rush Fever" by Barbara Greenwood. It was GREAT! I would recommend it to anyone who is even mildly interested in this subject. It was made for a younger crowd, so it was an easy read, had tons of pictures, was straight forward, factual and related it to life today. Gives applications to make the story of the Klondike Gold Rush more real to any one reading it. I enjoyed it. Y'all should check it out. In fact...you should come visit the museum! It's a pretty nice lifttle place we got here. I mean come on, you can see how much you would be worth if you were gold with this handy dandy weighing machine!! They also have short videos to watch (one of which I watched today!) and a tour of this area, which I went on today...that's something I'd like to do eventually, give tours of historical sites, I think that sounds quite thrilling! and one other thing the museum has on saturdays...me! I'm in the gift shop, so come visit!

Well, I think I'm gogint to start on another book now...maybe one that isn't aimed at elementary age kids. Nah, those are the good kinds. ;)

Updates

It has been a long while since I have written here and I thought it was time to add a few things.

I now have an internship at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (yes, I know it has an extraordinarily long name). It is in downtown Seattle by Pioneer Square. I am thoroughly enjoying it! I work in the gift shop right now, and soon will be splitting up my time between the gift shop and the actual museum. I love the people I'm working with, they are wonderful people and they all are passionate about history!

Here's a picture of the museum. You all should come visit me...I work almost every Saturday from 9am-5pm!

For work this summer I am back at Edmonds Community College in the Enrollment Services office, this I am also loving. It's wonderful to have a job where after a long day in the office I can honestly say that I had fun at work! :)

Ok, something ultra exciting...my brother and his wife are having a baby!! (Oh by the way, my brother got married!) It is going to be a little girl and she is due on August 28th. So soon!!! Here's an ultrasound picture, a little old, but still cool.

I just finished dog sitting for one of my coworkers on Saturday and stared dog sitting on Monday for my neighbor! Both times I'm staying at their houses, so I'm not home much. It's been good though, made me positive I never want to have a dog. It's just too much hassle to have to come home to feed the dog and/or let them out to pee! I don't like having that much of a commitment! I've got things to do, people to see, places to go!! :) But it's a ok for a few weeks while people are out on vacations.

Since it's summer break I've been doing a lot of reading when I'm not working or whatnot. That's been nice. some books I've been reading are, "Practicing History" (A prof from Northwest sent me this book from one of her favorite authors because she thought I would enjoy it! How sweet is that!!!), I've just started "The Five Languages of Apology", this one's for a summer Bible Study I'm in...don't really know much about it besides the fact that it's about apology. Also reading "Night", a biography of a guy who lived through the Holocaust. I just finished "Deadline", book about three friends and heaven and hell, interesting but not a favorite of mine. I didn't put in any of the authors because I don't know any...I have a few other books I want to start up on soon, one main one being "Mere Christianity" by C. S. Lewis. Never read it and wanted to for a while now.

Not really much else going on. My friends who supply me with much of my summer fun are in Europe for 3 months. Great for them, I'm glad they went, but my summer is definitely lacking random and wildly exciting adventures.

Kidnapping

There I was, innocently minding my own business...when I was kidnapped by Laura and Amy! I was in their frightening hands for a whole evening 'til they released me!
My captors

They made me sit in a scary chair (every thing's a bit more frightening when you can't see it...)


They were threatening me!!! Not really, but it was cold...I had no clue where I was.

Then they took me to a friend's house, Shelly.

And put me in the garage...I stayed in there while they left with a scary noise in the backround (aside from the blaring classical music). I roamed through the house for a while until I went out the front door where they were waiting for me!

Then I got blindfolded again...and into the car for one last trip...to Starbucks!!

Where they bought me coffee! :)

I have such AWESOME friends!

Love you guys! :)

Classes for this Quarter!!

Asian History
US Diplomatic Affairs
American Government
Bible Interpretation
Intro the Geography
Religion & Politics

It's going to be a good semester, I'm liking my classes so far, but it's definetly going to be tough. Harder than last semester!! Yet, extremely enjoyable.